Botting accusations...

First time ever... I woke up at like 3am with insomnia, so I figured i'd go code... busted out my trusty fishing AUTOIT Script and started my priest fishing (legitimate bot)... I started up wow on my main machine and went to Felwood to farm Tubers. Since they respawn at exactly 25 minutes I have my watch set for 25 minutes, start the timer when I pick, and when it goes off I pick again.

I hadn't payed attention but over the next 6 hours i picked the tuber every 25 minutes... some alliance guy came by every now and then and must have petitioned me... a GM moved my character right at the 24:30 mark and since I run dual head on that system I saw it... I ripped the GM a new one for assuming that just because I was in the same place for so long picking the same tuber every 25 minutes that I was botting. The code included frequent /console reloadui's and I was never AFK for the duration... of course I WAS botting on my priest...

The next time I got accused of botting I was working on UI mods again and needed a raid - the GM told me that it was "frowned upon" to use Alterac Valley as a place to work on UI mods... when I asked if it was against the rules he repeated it was frowned upon, I asked if I was in trouble, he reminded me it was frowned upon... Ultimately I told him to stop bothering me and just frown silently, I'm not AFK, I'm not botting, and I'm not breaking any rules so thank you kindly but let me pay you $15 a month and play the game how I feel within the set rules.

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The most recent was a classic argument of what can and can't be done...

I was AE grinding near sludge fen... and a player watched me gather 8 goblins, ice nova them, ae them down while healing both mages with the paladin...

He accused me of botting, I responded I was boxing not botting, big difference...

He replied "You can't box three characters, I could barely box two!!"

I replied "I'm sorry that you feel your limited skill and ability reflects on the rest of the world, fortunately for the world, we aren't nearly as limited as you."

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An amusing story of botting and NOT being spotted... I had written a tag-along bot for my priest... I didn't enjoy leveling her at all, and I developed a mod that took a single keystroke and translated it into whatever needed done most... healing, buffing, dispelling, drinking, etc... Ends up that it worked quite well in Alterac valley... and I botted her to Exhalted there letting her follow other players around healing and dispelling...

One particularly good game she had decided this mage was the guy to follow (I had some pretty decent logic for how to pick your master out of who was nearby) and had stuck with him most of the match... about the time we took SPGY the mage turned to my priest and said "I have to go to work, make sure they push the aide station after we cap the SPGY, don't let them get distracted! Once they cap the aide station kill the .... " and traded me a bunch of water... I said "Sure" took the water and repeated what he said to raid chat and let her continue on her botting way....

We won 10 minutes later... under the leadership of a bot!

(note: I do NOT suggest botting in any form any more, and I've never suggested botting is a good idea especially using off the shelf tools... I never got busted because I never used someone elses mod. Additionally I haven't botted since 2.0 hit since they took all the tools I used out of the UI or locked them down as they should have)